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Initial Jobless Claims Disappoint (Again), Continuing Claims Worst Since Dec 2021 Following a weaker than expected AP print, jobless claims data is worse than expected too. Initial claims rose to 238k last…

Watch: Press Hammers KJP, Repeatedly Demand To Know If Biden Has Dementia During Briefing Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre, holding her first proper press…

ADP Payrolls Disappoint In June – 3rd Straight Monthly Decline In Additions ADP reported 150k job additions in June (well below the 165k expected) – the third straight monthly decline in job…

Futures Trade At Record High Ahead Of Data Flood US futures traded at new record highs amid rising optimism a Fed rate cut is coming, perhaps as soon as the end of the…

Identification With Democrats Plummets In The US Identification with the Democratic Party has plummeted in the U.S. to the lowest recorded levels, according to a Gallup database. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, even…

Two kamikaze watercraft were stopped overnight while trying to reach the port of Novorossiysk, the Defense Ministry has reported The Russian Navy has intercepted two Ukrainian naval unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) deployed…

3 In 4 Americans Say They’re Not Financially Secure, New Report Shows Authored by Jen Krausz via The Epoch Times, According to a new Bankrate report, three in four Americans say they…

Obama Privately ‘Concerned’ About Biden As White House Staff Freak Over Hunter While Former President Barack Obama has publicly supported sockpuppet president Joe Biden following last Thursday’s unprecedented debate, he has privately…

A single Krasnopol artillery munition was enough to obliterate the vehicle, according to Moscow’s military Russian forces have destroyed another US-supplied Ukrainian-operated Abrams main battle tank in Donbass, the Defense Ministry in…

More than 250,000 took part in a religious rally that resulted in mass deaths, according to police India is investigating the circumstances in which a religious event in Uttar Pradesh state turned…

An Iskander attack on an airfield in Poltava region has destroyed a parked Mil Mi-24, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow A Russian missile strike on an airfield in central Ukraine…

Many Democrats believe US President Joe Biden should drop out of the race after his poor debate performance Michelle Obama, the wife of former US President Barack Obama, is the only potential…

The former US Secretary of State says Kiev is right to be concerned if the Republican prevails over Biden Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has signaled her support if Ukraine…

The East African nation experienced widespread unrest once again on Tuesday as demonstrators called for the president’s resignation Kenyan authorities have vowed to crack down on violent protests after the East African…

Energy giant Gazprom has ramped up pipeline supplies to Western, Central, Southern and Southeastern Europe by nearly a quarter, the outlet has said Russian natural gas exports to Western, Central, Southern, and…

Debate over the Muslim garment that covers all but a woman’s eyes has intensified following last month’s terrorist attack in the republic Islamic authorities in Russia’s Dagestan Republic have decreed a temporary…

Crypto Hacks, Scams Totaled Over Half-A-Billion Dollars For Q2, 2024: Report Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Over half a billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency was stolen in…

A Russian soldier tossed a 10kg munition inside a building during an assault, a video from the battlefield shows A video circulating on social media purportedly shows a daredevil Russian soldier using…

Saudi Producer Sentenced To 13 Years In Prison Over Animated Netflix Series Via Middle East Eye Saudi writer and producer Abdul Aziz al-Muzaini has been sentenced to 13 years in prison and 13 years of…

The US is willing to sacrifice its allies in order to defeat Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has argued Any Western talk of peace in the Ukraine conflict is merely a…

Many of the bloc’s members want “additional steps” from Kiev as they consider the issue a “priority,” a source has told the paper NATO wants Ukraine to make more effort to crack…

Nine Ukrainian Jets Destroyed In 24 Hours, Russia’s Military Says The Kremlin has continued to signal to the West that the dozens of US F-16 fighter jets currently being prepped to transfer…

Macron’s Loss Isn’t An End, It’s A Beginning Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, To say that I’ve been waiting on pins and needles for the past year…

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And…

How Financial Surveillance Threatens Our Democracies: Part 1 Authored by Alexandre Stachtchenko via Bitcoin Magazine, When they descended into coal mines, miners would take a caged canary with them. The toxic gasses,…

Black Americans Still Feel Systematically Held Back On July 2, 1964, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. To this day, the landmark bill is considered one of the most significant legislative…

US Marshals Find 200 Missing Children In Nationwide Operation Authored by Mary Lou Lang via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) found 200 missing children, including sex trafficking victims, abused…

When Bitcoin $100,000? It Depends On Biden’s Next Move For much of the past year, Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick has had a nice, round number in mind for his 2024 year-end price…

US Completes Hypersonic Missile Flight Test In Bid To Keep Up With China Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Army and Navy have recently completed a flight test…

These Are The Most Expensive States To Maintain A Home Buying a house is the American dream, but maintaining that property in good shape can be challenging for homeowners. This map, via…

The Russian leader will hold a series of bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Astana where the leaders of the…

Jury Awards $687,000 To BlueCross BlueShield Scientist Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal jury has awarded $687,000 to a research scientist who was…

The Pentagon vows to supply Kiev with more air defense interceptors and other “critical munitions” US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin welcomed his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov at the Pentagon on Tuesday,…

Apple’s ‘Sell-Through’ Market Share Erodes, UBS says The world’s most valuable company saw its smartphone market share in China shrink in May, even after “deep” discounting, according to UBS analysts citing Counterpoint Research….

Robert Reich’s Blind Spots: The Elephant In The Progressive Left’s Room Authored by Jonathan Newman via The Mises Institute, Robert Reich is on his fifth myth, but so far, he has just been…

“Major Victory For American Energy”: Judge Blocks Biden’s Pause On LNG Export Licenses A federal court halted President Biden’s war on America’s energy independence by reversing a temporary moratorium on permitting new licenses for liquified natural gas…

Scammers Are Impersonating Water, Electric, And Gas Companies; BBB Warns Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Scammers are impersonating utility company representatives to defraud people by threatening the…

US Airports Are Busier Than Ever This Year As the summer holiday travel season is in full swing, U.S. airports are getting quite busy these days. In fact, as Statista’s Felix Richter reports, according to…

Biden Announces Five Actions To Address Extreme Weather In US Authored by T J Muscaro via The Epoch Times, President Joe Biden spoke to the nation from the Emergency Operations Center in…

The US presidential hopeful is reportedly considering options to stop the Ukraine conflict The former and possibly future US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a deal with Russia not to expand…

Biden Admin Deliberately Flying Previously-Deported Illegal Aliens Back Into The US Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, A new report claims that the Biden Administration has deliberately been flying illegal aliens…

Post-Roe V. Wade: Where Americans Stand On Abortion Last week saw the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that…

The US president’s office insists that his inability to finish sentences during a debate was simply a “bad night” US President Joe Biden does not have Alzheimer’s or dementia, and “knows how…

The popstar’s 18-city European tour that kicked off in May has been driving up prices Pop superstar Taylor Swift’s European tour is not the only factor keeping inflation high across the euro…

What In The World Happened In 1971? Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, A colleague recently discovered a website called “WTF Happened in 1971?” The entire main page is filled with…

Election debates in the US and UK reveal the complete bankruptcy of politics in the West Last Friday Donald Trump and Joe Biden took part in the first of two scheduled debates…

WTI Bounces After API Reports Biggest Crude Draw In 6 Months Oil prices fell back from new two-month highs early on as (supply) fears over the impact of Hurricane Beryl eased, but…

Fed Paid Banks And Funds $400 Billion Over 2 Years For Sitting On Cash Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times, The banking industry has benefited from the Federal Reserve’s measures…

Lloyd Austin Unveils New $2.3BN Aid While Hosting Ukraine’s Defense Chief We wrote in early June that the White House is planning to announce new Ukraine arms and funding packages about every two…

Major Brands Push ‘Upflation’ Gimmick To Drive Up Sales  US consumers have been well aware of the ‘shrinkflation’ phenomenon in recent years, but now there’s a new emerging trend: Some of the world’s largest packaged…

Blackstone Sees AI Revolution Growing Private Credit Market To Staggering $25 Trillion Several years ago we calculated that the cost to implement the “Green new deal”, and to fund the liberal crusade…

The US Is A “Runaway Train” Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance I had the wonderful pleasure of interviewing my friend Chris Martenson from Peak Prosperity this week. Martenson, PhD (Duke), MBA (Cornell) is an economic…

Financial System ‘Plumbing’ Starts To Show Signs Of Stress Again Usage of The Fed’s Reverse Repo facility is down $220 Billion in the last two days as the massive surge in demand…

No, President Biden, The Supreme Court Did Not Remove Any Limits On The Presidency Authored by Jonathan Turley, President Joe Biden delivered an address from the White House last night on the…

In a letter to Judge Merchan earlier today, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg is asking for a postponement of sentencing. Regardless of the corrupt Lawfare trial outcome, the Supreme Court ruling…

The former US president is now free to accept the Republican nomination New York Judge Juan Merchan has rescheduled the next hearing in the case against former US President Donald Trump to…

The highest turnout in forty years demonstrates the electorate’s desire and hope for change. But voters are very unlikely to get what they want. The first round of snap elections for the…

A full ceasefire in Gaza would compel the Lebanese armed group to cease the fighting immediately, its deputy leader has told AP The only way to stop the escalation on the Israeli-Lebanese…

The right-wing National Rally party posted a strong showing in the first round of the parliamentary elections last Sunday As many as 200 candidates from President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance Party and a…

Does Justice Sotomayor Write Her Decisions In Crayon? Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, Following last week’s decisions, which represented a significant blow to the American administrative state, yesterday, the…

Bonds & Stocks Bid As Government Job Openings Suddenly Surge Despite the near-perfect track record of downward revisions over the last 17 months, the market seemed buoyed today by a better than…

Democrats should ask whether the president’s debate-night fumble was a sign of a serious “condition,” the former house speaker has said Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that questions about…

The bankrupt platform is expected to start distributing assets stolen from clients in a 2014 hack, according to a report The price of Bitcoin could be affected by the upcoming repayments to…

Vilnius is reportedly developing fortification and evacuation plans Authorities in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, have developed a plan to ring the entire city with anti-tank obstacles before the end of the…

James Clyburn and Barack Obama are the two democrats who could unilaterally remove Joe Biden by withdrawing their support.  It must frustrate Jill Biden to know The Lightbringer and the Ballot Master…

At Least 116 People Dead In India After Stampede At Religious Event A stampede at a large religious event in northern India has resulted in the deaths of at least 116 people, and…

WEF Kingpin Klaus Schwab Accused Of Sexual Harassment Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Several former female staffers at the World Economic Forum have accused founder Klaus Schwab of sexual harassment and…

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge To Illinois Ban On ‘Assault Weapons’, Other Gun Appeals Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court declined on July 2 to take up…

Biden Admin Sells 1 Million Barrels Of Gasoline Ahead Of July 4th Holiday, But… Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, The federal government completed the sale of 1 million barrels…

Discontent over the president’s debate performance “appears to be turning into a full-blown party revolt,” the Daily Mail has reported A growing number of top Democratic donors are fuming over US President…

The tip of the Lawfare spear consists of a small group of former DOJ attorneys and Main Justice leftists who helped AG Eric Holder create the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) when…

Earnings Bar Lowered As Q2 Reports Begin Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Wall Street analysts continue significantly lowering the earnings bar as we enter the Q2 reporting period. Even as analysts…

Trump Moves To Overturn Manhattan Conviction After Supreme Court Immunity Decision Hours after the US Supreme Court granted Donald Trump immunity for official acts committed in office, the former president began an…

Move Over, Disaster Capitalism… Make Room For Addiction Capitalism Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, That monkey on your back comes in many forms. We’ve all heard of Disaster Capitalism: the…

The rapper’s unexpected appearance in the Russian capital over the weekend sparked rumors about a possible show American rapper Kanye West, known as Ye, will not perform in Russia, TCI concert agency…

Former Hillary Aide Claims Debate Setup Was “Soft Coup” By Democrats To Replace Biden Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Sources close to the Democratic Party have claimed that the debate last…

The French president has been using his powers to make last-minute appointments, according to the former leader of the National Rally party French President Emmanuel Macron is undertaking a last-minute reshuffling in…

The IDF doesn’t have enough troops or ammo to fight in Gaza and Lebanon simultaneously, officials have told the New York Times Dozens of senior Israeli generals want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

Kiev does not agree with a Hungarian plan to stop the conflict, Zelensky’s deputy chief of staff has said Ukraine is not interested in Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s proposal to halt…

  It’s the time of year when we think of feasting at backyard cookouts, picnics down at the lake, or my favorite, out in the woods. I also crave the great summer…

Policymakers Get A Pep Talk By Bas van Geffen, CFA, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Yesterday evening, President Lagarde opened the ECB’s annual policymaking conference. Unsurprisingly, the this year’s theme revolves around…

Job Openings Unexpectedly Surge, Driven Entirely By Government Jobs After two months of sharp declines in the number of job openings, moments ago Biden’s highly politicized Department of Labor reported that in…

During a surprise trip to Kiev, the Hungarian prime minister argued that a truce would “speed up” peace negotiations Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has urged Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky to halt military…

Preparations for an official trip to Russia by the Indian leader are in their final stages, according to spokesman Dmitry Peskov Preparations for an official visit to Russia by Indian Prime Minister…

Five athletes have declined invitations to compete as neutrals, according to the International Olympic Committee Several Russian tennis players will not compete at this year’s Summer Olympics in Paris despite receiving invitations,…

WTI Trades At Multi-Month High On Middle East, Hurricane Concerns   Hurricane Beryl strengthened overnight to a powerful Category 5 storm as it churned in the Caribbean Sea. The Cat. 5 storm is the earliest on…

If The High Cost Of Groceries Makes You Feel Sick, You Are Not Alone Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, If you are really struggling with the high cost…

IDF To Re-Invade Khan Younis, Issues New Evacuation Orders The Israeli army issued a new order for Palestinians to evacuate from the eastern portion of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan…

Greece is trying to tackle shrinking productivity amid an exodus of skilled workers  The Greek government has allowed more businesses to impose a six-day working week on their employees in a bid…

SEBEX 2 can be used in artillery shells, aerial bombs, and conventional warheads A private company in India has developed a new explosive that is more than twice as powerful as standard…

Italy’s UniCredit has asked the bloc’s top court to review the ECB’s request UniCredit has appealed to the EU’s top court to clarify an order issued by the European Central Bank (ECB)…

TSLA Shares Soar After Better-Than-Expected Q2 Deliveries Despite the downbeat talk about the EV market globally, Tesla found a way to surprise investors with better than expected deliveries data for Q2 The…

William Ruto declined to sign the 2024 Finance Bill last week after several protesters were killed in clashes Kenyan President William Ruto says his government will need to borrow more to make…

The Vast Majority Of Professional Investors Own Some Gold Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals Exchange, Despite the generally negative attitude toward gold you hear in the mainstream financial media, the…

Hundreds of civilians, mainly fishermen, have been arrested by New Delhi and Islamabad for crossing the maritime border India and Pakistan on Monday exchanged lists of civilian prisoners and fishermen who are…

The situation along the country’s borders with NATO and Ukraine is “very serious,” Alexander Lukashenko has warned Western countries “can’t wait” to drag Belarus into their “military squabbles,” Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko…

US Futures Slide As European Relief Rally Reverses, Oil Hits 2 Month High US equity futures are sliding, reversing all of Monday’s gains and then some, with tech and small-caps stocks underperforming…

Aydos Sadykov has passed away in the Ukrainian capital after spending nearly two weeks in a coma following an assassination attempt Kazakh opposition figure and blogger Aydos Sadykov has passed away in…

Zambia’s central bank has introduced a ban on foreign currency in domestic transactions The Bank of Zambia has drafted new rules aimed at curbing the use of foreign currencies in local transactions,…